OK....so I am a QImage user...just.....Getting to grips with the massive amount of functionality.
So here is the thing. I am printing on a 13 inch roll, and wanting to do 10 at a time without auto cutting (paper too thick). Images are 11 by 15.5 and I want a 1 inch margin round each. Hence I am using a 13 inch roll, and setting the paper size to be 13 by 18. All good. Printer prints and image fits perfectly into the given sized paper......
However, despite what I can work out, the printer seems to put at least 4 inches of white paper between the end of one print and the start of the next. All I want is an inch, to allow me to cut and trim each of the images to the exact size. Wasting 4 inches is just.....wasteful. Its around a quarter extra on each image which is financially crazy too, regardless of environmental concerns.
Hopefully this makes more sense now? Really appreciate any thoughts. I am hopeful that there is a setting in QImage that I am missing and its not just a printer default that can't be changed.
Thanks for input so far!
Ross
Looks like a printer driver issue then. What is the minimum print page length possible on that printer? What custom size of paper did you make in the printer driver? I guess it is one of the two that gives you the 4" extra.
If I had to do that in your style on the Z3100 (PCL3 driver) I would set a custom size in the printer driver 13X17.5 inch on 13" roll. Auto cutter off. It will display a maximum print page size above Qimage preview of 12.6x16.9 inch (Z3100 5mm print margins and if my conversion between metrics-imperial is correct). I would select a custom image size of 11 x 15.5 inch and place the image centered. There is no way that I can use the corner mark feature for cutting later on as the marks wouldn't print in the margins at that roll width and not in the length with that driver's custom size. Adding borders has little sense too, the print margin white will be used in the borders too. Images should have the aspect ratio of 11:15.5, no cropping set, no borders. The prints will roll out with a 0.2" white print margin at the front, sides and trailing edge but you will not see that. The overall dimension should be 13x17.5 inch. The image (more or less) centered and 10x15.5 inch. I would have to manually cut each print off the roll.
What I actually would do is place ten images on a longer custom size and make sure the distance between the prints is 2 inches, the control for that is in the page edit menu and a separate calculator. Works a lot faster at printing. So does a wider roll. I would let the printer cut the roll at the end and cut the individual prints after that. Save that Qimage setting for job repeats.
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